Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-01
The Wild Sorry of Senator Reagan's
Successes Blowing Out the Gas
Conco&ed by Newspaper.
The Sfory that Mills and Grain Msds
Him Def His Texas Garb at
Baltimore Equally False.
DsadIoek In the Pacific Railroad In
vesugafspg Commissioner Demo
cratic Caucus Called,
coNeREssMAN MARTINS DEFENSE.

| utterly false story concerning Major W
| Il Martin, who succeeded Senator Rea-
gan in the House, has been going the
rounds of the press. Major Martin was
stopping ct Wizards, ana in turning of
the gas preparatory to his slumbers turned
the regulator little too far, the apparatus
beng of the old style. The result was
that small amount of gas escaped dur
ing the night, but not enough to occasion
the slightest Inconvenience to him. Some
irresponsible Bohemian on so slight a
| foundation eoncocted the story thatM or
| Martin blowout the gas and it was with
| difficulty he was restored to conscious
ness. Ridiculous and false as it is,
number of newspapers gave 1t currency.
| The proprietor Of the willard brands
the report as falsehood, and says it was
! the work OF some newspaper man after
sensational item. Major Martin, like the
| intelligent gentleman that he is, pays no
attention TO the absurd story, but num-
| Der Of his Texas colleagues think it is an
| outrageous. shame for the Associated
Press TO seHd out such ridiculous and
untruthful account with the result of
casting odium ON one of the honored
representatives of Texas.
Another story equally as untrue and ri
diculous, concerning Major Martin, was
printed by fhe New York Graphic, 10 the
| Effect that CONGRESSMAN Mills and Grain
met him in Baltimore while. he was en-
route to the capitol, and made him put
on an entirely new outfit Of wearing APP
l.parel, castiag his homely garb in which
khe appeared before his Texas constitu-
ency into eeliar The truth is that Ma
| j II Martin arrived in Washington before
either of the gentlemen, and was never In
Baltimore. None of these stories, how
ever, have. gained the slightest credence,
and will do no harm to the gentleman
named.
ENABLE TO AGREE.
Special to the Gazette.
sHISeToN, Nov. 30.-There seems
TO be no possibility of an agreement
among the Pacific railroad Investigating
com mission. sLytles and Anderson called
on the PRECEDENT to-day and told him of
the situation. He seemed greatly dissat-
4sffe6, s - ss;sss f3fiezss 9sssy
must mgess and endeavor to agree. The
trouble seems to be that two of the COM
missioqeTs are in favor OF funding the in
debtedness of the railroads On long time
bonds at q low rate of inter
erest,4 while Governor Patter-
son, the chairman OF the committee,
wishes q vigorous accounting and some
prompt measures for immediate settle
mentz 1t is the maj 0rity opinion, it will
be observed, that has been prevalent
emoBg stock brokers f n the past week,
and has raised the price of Pacific stocks.
1t has been given out as a matter OF news
and used in the market accordingly. Oae
report from the White House tonight is
that the President said he would send in
report himself on the subject if no
agreement can be reached, but he still
hopes that to-night's meeting may have
some result, = - - -
81 A DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-A call for a
caucus of the Democratic members of the
House Of Representatives to meet next
Saturday afternoon, for the purpose Of
nominating officers of the House TO be
elected next Monday, will be prepared
and will be authoritatively published to-
morrow. 1t seems to be generally under
stood among the Democrats, the Star
says, that S Cox of NV York is to be
elected permanent chairman Of the eau
Gus.
SITUATION SIZED UP.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-The Post in
the morning will print series of inter
views with nearly q hundred members
of Congress upon questions which are
to be presented to that body for its
action during the coming session. and
particularly those rel ting 10 tariff, re-
duction of the surplusrevenue and postal
telegraph. The Post will summarize the
interviews as follows:
Speaker Carlisle states the Democratic
position with great clearness. His views
are important, in view of the grest
responsibility which will be placed upon
his shoulders with the Organization
OF the House. He believes in al imme-
date reduction of the surplus revenue
now pouring into the Treasury. He be-
lieves in reducing the taxes which produce
those revenues at least $40. Coo. 900
annually. His Democratic, followers who
stood with Mr.. Morrison in the last Con-
gress take the same position. OF the
few Democrats who have sided with
Mr.. Randall who are now in the city.
Messrs. McAdoo, Stahlnecker, Wilnens,
Merrimsn and LsWlers are quoted as
experiencing somewhat Of change of
heart. The sentiment of the northwestern
men is that the free trade sentiment is
growing in that section. The Democrat
ic representatives from Minnesota and
Michigan are confident that their states
can be made Democratic upon the revenue
reform issue.
Mr.. Lyman Of Ohio, Republican, al
though he acknowledges he is
q protectionist, comes out for q
reduction of the revenue. Many
Represe Natives agree thst something
must be done with the tariff Many WAYS
Of reducing the surplus are sug-
gested. Quite q number of Con-
Neressmen favor compromise, such
as taking the tax of of tobacco, and
prefer reducing it on fruit and brsndies
The proposition to-takethe tax C q of whis-
ky hardly finds supporter. The question
OF putting sugar on the free list finds
some advocates, but mainly among the
Republicans. Louisiana Cougressmen 20
sRhom this is vital question: say their